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In this eighth offering by L. Wade Powers, readers will be tantalized by a kaleidoscope of stories, essays, and poems, including the titular “The Gristmill Mistress,” a tale of a scandalous affair between an apprentice mill worker and the married son of a Virginia town founder during the 1800s.

In “The Game is On,” a one-act play set at a poker elimination tournament, the stakes are higher than the players can possibly imagine, and in “Cat-a-Rack” role playing can be fun, educational, and dangerous, especially when the setting is a dungeon. Let the charming professor and beautiful librarian show you how the game is played.

“Dance Like the Greeks” is a travel memoir set on Evia, where dancing is the key to a long and happy life. Opa! Do you believe in dragons? You will, you will.

These and many more delights in The Gristmill Mistress are your ticket to a flight of fancy: tales of imagination and everyday relationships, accounts of daring doings, and predictable failures.

Lawrence W. Powers, writing fiction as L. Wade Powers, has a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Texas. He spent much of his life either in laboratory medicine or as a marine biologist, specializing in behavioral ecology. During the last twenty years before he retired in 2013, he was an academic dean and professor of natural sciences at an Oregon university. He served briefly as the creative nonfiction editor for Timberline Review and for five years as a contributing editor for the Journal of the Shaw Historical Library, based in southern Oregon. He is a member of the Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA) and Willamette Writers.Distortions of reality comprise much of his fiction. Previous novels and short story collections are listed before the title page. Favorite topics include adolescent musings and doings, lucid dreams, androids and future dystopias, western history, a dash of gothic horror, and reflections on why we do what we do or don't. This collection contains his first time travel piece, a favorite subgenre since he was the nerdy young lad depicted in many of his stories.Larry lives in southeastern Oregon with his beautiful wife and enjoys the high desert plains and nearby Cascades. You can learn more about him and his literary efforts at lwadepowers.com.